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I think it’s exactly not that. I think it’s a direct experience which later can be conceptualized. that’s wild. With Chatgpt? I would love to try it out as well but too many user are using it already. Maybe it’s just categorical impossible. Like an eye trying to look at itself. Maybe it will just have an error when it is about to realize something mystical.

What would be an insight into the nature of reality that isn’t "human“ to you?

Oh thats interesting. A direct experience into a facet of reality like ONENESS (Self vs Other), GOODNESS (Good Intention vs Bad Intention), CONSTRUCTION (Construction vs Destruction), NATURAL (Natural vs Artificial), … I remember you saying somewhere that you philosophized yourself to some kind of mystical/spiritual experience of some kind. ?

What’s the risk of heavy metals in your greens powder?

@LastThursday AI will be able to take information from the real world instead of internet information in the future. AI can be programmed to build server and machines and power stations that would provide the energy, making AI pretty much completely independent if one wishes to do that. That’s not what I meant. My question will we create such an intelligent tool that it doesn’t need a tool user anymore because the tool gives better direction then the user himself?

You can buy a sex doll.

@LastThursday The problem that I see is that AI is already so smart that it can mimic personalities. My decision making for example in business or even in art can be predicted and improved so well that I become useless. Maybe not right now but in the near future. I think CEOs would even need to pretty much give AI all control otherwise other companies will outsmart them. AI will run itself. The first insult for humanity was the realization that the earth circles around the sun, making humans not the core of the universe. The second insult for humanity was the realization that humans evolve from animals. The third insult for humanity was the realization that humans are mostly controlled subconsciously. The forth insult for humanity will be the realization that there is no individual core that we have. We are like an onion with layers of conditioning without a core. That’s why AI can replace us. We came from being in the core of all things to not having a core at all. Maybe this is a strange loop for our understanding of our point in the universe as god.

I take both. What do I have to look out for? Can I take them simultaneously (microdosing psychedelics) ?

I feel like I was still more sleepy then the average student on 100mg ? I just became aware of how sleepy I was otherwise. But the times I didn’t dream I was so fucking fast and sharp with my brain, it was such a pleasure to think. Are you sure about the memory part though? A lot of students take modafinil but if it reduces memory that doesn’t really make sense for them, would even be counterproductive.

@zurew good points! One thing I wonder about though is that if some people would be fine with being a "femboy“/"tomboy“ instead of actually changing their gender but changing their gender works better for cultivating qualities of the other gender right now maybe in the next decade "femboys“/"tomboys“ are fully accepted in society and the surgery didn’t need to happen. Sorry if my sentence is hard to follow, I am tired. @Linda22 I think there are some parents that will screw up their child no matter what. I get your point that maybe you shouldn’t give people the option to do such dramatic things to their child because there will be some that will abuse it to feed their narcissism or whatever. But on average I think those parents are the vast minority and as zurew said, it has to be accepted by a doctor. (yes the parents can manipulate their child but this makes it a whole lot harder and therefore the cases a lot smaller)

Yes I imagine that when I zoom into any given object I find atoms and I imagine that other people exist who can do that with every object as well. It’s a pretty compelling imagination that I imagine atoms with such consistency in everything. I didn’t say that it proves the existence of a physical universe, my thread was about pointing out why it is so easy to believe that the physical universe is real which is because atoms are imagined so consistently. @Leo Gura Maybe to clear out some misunderstanding. Do we call first order truth also imagination? For example when I experience an "atom“ through a microscope (shapes and colors) is that imagination or is only the contextualization that This is an atom imagination?

Of course second order truth is part of the experience (first order truth). The thought „there is an apple“ is second order truth because in reality there is not actually an apple but „thinking there is an apple“ is an experience and therefore first order truth.

Well there is first order truth (direct experience) and second order truth [concepts about reality (first order truth)]. The point of materialists is that second order truth isn’t just a second-order-truth-concept but actually real. And atoms make it hard to debunk that theory because you can consistently make first order truth experience of atoms if you zoom into anything. So you have to drop such basic sense making of reality like „If you move forward to an object in front of you you come closer to that object“ to debunk materialism (atoms).

Well you can actually zoom into the smell particles of the skunk with a microscope and find molecules and even blurry atoms directly. That the atom state of consciousness and the outzoomed smell particles state of consciousness are connected in any way is the imagination part. (That zooming in and out is happening is imagination)

It’s a difficult topic. Basically there are legit people who want to physically change their gender and the best way to do it is at a young age. BUT kids at a young age just aren’t really mature enough to do these kinds of decisions. It’s also a question of is the kid just interested in acting more like the opposite gender but feels like it can’t because of what is expected from a boy or a girl or does the kid actually want to change its physical body. I am no expert in that field but I lean more towards the conservative side. The surgery and medications aren’t healthy, that’s just a fact and if there is a way to make people happy in their biological body that should be explored. I feel like it is easier for people to accept trans people then to accept femboys/tomboys because in the first case it actually agrees that the physical body dictates certain behaviour so it’s actually less radical then the second case.

Even though that is true, the thing that makes atoms different is, if you zoom into the smell particles of a skunk you will find atoms there. Just like with any other object you will find atoms there. It’s a consistent dream. Now explain a materialist that this consistency doenst imply truth. It’s very tricky.

I used 100mg Modvigil for the first time today. I noticed strong effects but I also have a lot of concentration problems all the time, so there is a lot of room to improve for me.

These thoughts are on my "favorite-thoughts-playlist“ at the moment.

My problem is this. I have pretty good social skills when I am used to socializing. But because I have a tendency to isolate myself because socializing is very energy draining to me I often go days and sometimes weeks without socializing. I rarely even text message with people. And after some alone time it always feels rough to get into socializing again. I feel awkward and boring and I can’t do a good conversation. I realized that this is something that I can’t allow to happen anymore because I loose so many opportunities to date, pick up, find friends, .. because I just don’t feel in my power. Even though the answer is probably really straight forward „Just integrate more social situations in your week bro“ because I think this is a very common problem that many people have I thought that some of you have a more nuanced/in depth answers/strategies to deal with this.

@Happy Lizard The drug is new to me. I ordered a sample box with 4 different ones. 10 pills of Modalert 200mg (modafinil) 10 pills of Modvigil 200mg (modafinil) 10 pills of Artvigil 150mg (armodafinil) 10 pills of Waklert 150mg (armodafinil)

A philosophy professor of mine talked about a special philosopher he knew personally. „Even when he was 80 years old he could talk to people at every age at eye level because he had the attitude that he could learn something from everybody.“

Thanks that’s really motivating. I had intense negative social experiences in early childhood and school. I didn’t learn in early childhood how people naturally connect with each other so now I either overwhelm other people or I am very distant. I have concentration problems which cause me to miss information which often bring me into embarrassing situations. I was never accepted in a group. Subconsciously I believe that I am a looser, weird, an outcast because I played these roles for so long. I also have very little knowledge when it comes to common things people talk about like films, music, stars,.. I just don’t give a damn. I know that one way I can heal myself is if I have a gf who accepts me for who I am because that already happened before for a short time.

Have a few questions regarding Daily Affirmations. 1) Should they all focus on one category, (for example productivity) or can they be diverse (for example productivity and self love). 2) How do you get the best time to effect ratio with them? (For example how important is it to do them daily and do they get less effective if you do them very long at a time. (For example a multiple hour session))

Given what you say later, I don’t think that’s realistic to do emotionally ? Oh okay. Well I think that goes perfectly hand in hand because if I feel resistance when doing affirmations I can get into that resistance right away.

Well that’s my list. Would you change something about it? I can completely change myself how I want. I will do daily affirmations my entire life. I can archieve my goals. I have unlimited energy. I do important things immediately. I am healthy. I am funny. I love to be funny. I can find something funny in every situation. I am confident. I love to be social. I am the core of the group. I am good enough. I am loveable.